ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions remain primetime darlings and one of the NFL’s hottest tickets.

Not only did the Lions-Baltimore Ravens game deliver on the sky-high expectations in terms of quality. But it also ranked among the four-most viewed Monday Night Football games of the last 20 years, which includes 340-plus games in that span.

ESPN reports the Lions-Ravens Week 3 game peaked with 25.4 million viewers late in the first half, and its final audience was 22.847 million. It’s the network’s most-watched Week 3 Monday Night Football game of all time, and the second-most-watched traditional MNF game since 2006 -- traditional meaning it happened on a Monday night.

The Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles two years ago was the only traditional one to

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